Posts made in February, 2016

Physical therapy checkup Physical therapy checkup must a priority. Some people dont like the hassle and expense that it could have but what they fail to see at first glance is that if you don’t get physical therapy, you might never be able to function normally again. Depending on the degree of injury, stress, or trauma that your body has had to undergo, the amount of physical therapy will vary. So, you should know from the get go that when your doctor tells you that you need a physical therapy checkup, know that it is a necessity, not an option. Physical therapy checkup would help regain normal function as soon as possible. There is a reason why colleges and universities offer a course in physical and occupational therapy. Students don’t get degrees like these so they can open massage parlors, they get these degrees in order to treat patients in need. People that require physical therapy are those that have undergone extensive injury to their bodies; such that they would no longer be able to move nor use their bodies like a normal person would. Someone who has had their femurs broken or undergone surgery will require a significant amount of therapy in order to get back to normal. If you do not opt for therapy, you might never be the same person ever again. You might have to live walking with a limp, or not ever being able to stand up straight again. It’s not only athletes that need it, regular people do too. Depending on what state you live in, you can check the legal definition of physical injuries. The common denominator among all these definitions is that injuries are those that either require medical attention, or prevent you from performing work that you are habitually engaged in. Depending on the number of days you need, these injuries may be light or serious. And, if you suffer an injury that requires physical therapy, that injury of yours might just actually prevent you from coming back to work if you don’t go to therapy. Think about it, only a few hundred or thousands of dollars will prevent you from becoming a person with disability. Curable and preventable disabilities do not mean that you have to live with that disability for the rest of your...

Don’t skip knee therapy The goal of knee therapy and every other kind of therapy is to get your body working normally again so you can regain full function. If you have ever injured your knee before, you will find that it takes a great amount of time and money to get it working normally again. You have heard it all the time in sports, an athlete injures his ACL or MCL, or some kid at the park playing basketball had to get screws attached to his knee in order to fix any damage to a shattered or broken knee. After all that surgery and treatment, you will need knee therapy. And perhaps the greatest takeaway from all of this is that you need to be better educated about how your body works so you can avoid injuries in the first place. Therapists will rehabilitating your body in such a way that your nerve endings and your muscles will eventually regain and re-learn what their functions are. Therapists strengthen the injured portion of your body through regular exercise, stretching, and resistance training until you will be able to function normally under your own power. Re-injuring your knee will cost way more. Whether you have a torn or a strained ACL or MCL, you need to know that the cost of not doing anything about it is actually way more expensive than actually getting knee therapy or getting it checked. The trick to it all is prevention, and not rehabilitation. So, the moment you find something feels weird in your knees, get it checked; and, find out what it is. Don’t you think that it is so much better to find out that your knees are fine, rather than finding out that doctors will have to operate on your knee? The cost of a consultation definitely does pale in comparison to the cost of...

Tips to avoid spine therapy due to injury Spine therapy might be needed if your doing to much exercises that would affect your back portion.Anyone who has ever gone to the gym will tell you that doing dead-lifts is very, very risky. What they don’t tell you, however, is that the risky part about it is doing dead-lifts without the proper execution. Injuring your back is no joke. Have you ever heard the expression about breaking the camel’s back? One would certainly imagine that it takes an incredibly heavy load to break one, or a wrong way of lifting weight at the wrong angle, at the very wrong but precise moment. Use your legs to lift most of the weight. Gym trainers will always tell you to keep your back straight, and your chest out when doing back exercises. That’s because no matter how strong or how fit you are, if you lift weights with a curved back, you are risking potential back and spinal injury when you do so. Spine therapy does not come cheap. And injuring your spine brings you incredibly close to paralysis. When you lift using your legs, you take the weight off of your back. And that is why your trainers want you to do exactly just that. The less stress put on your back, the less chances you are of injuring it. So keep that back straight! Do not lift weights that are too heavy for you. Here are a few words that you need to throw away from your vocabulary the moment you step in the gym: pride, jealousy, and, shame. Those three words will send you straight to spine therapy or whatever type of therapy you need for injuries you sustain but could have avoided. Always remember that you are exercising for yourself, and not for those buffoons at the gym that will make you feel inadequate or small just because they are stronger or fitter than you. That’s the whole point of going to the gym anyway – to get fit and healthy! So the next time they show off or make your feel awkward, don’t pay them any attention because they have nothing better to do with their...

Don’t get shoulder therapy again There are exercises that would help you not to get shoulder therapy again. Having your shoulder pop out of its socket is no joke. It hurts, and it takes serious rehabilitation to get it to work normally again. Historically, people who have been injured on their shoulders are able to make full recoveries. However, common mistakes that rehab patients experience is that they tend to bite off more than they can chew. What we’re trying to say is that even if you feel a hundred percent normal again, the condition of your shoulder might not actually be at a hundred percent. Be on the safe side and be diligent. Do not do something too strenuous and run the risk of re-injuring your shoulder all over again. As a matter of fact, people who have undergone shoulder therapy often get recommended by their doctors or therapists to shift to another form of exercise. Something that will not expose them or put them at risk of getting the same injury all over again. That is where swimming comes in. Have you ever heard anyone of getting injured during swimming? Chances are, you probably haven’t. Other than the occasional cramp, swimmer’s ear, or swimmer’s elbow, the chances of getting a shoulder injury. That means a very little to virtually no chance of you ever having to go back to shoulder therapy. Strength and resistance training. Take note that such an exercise is very broad, and it would be incorrect to say that all types of strength and resistance training exercises will not lead to shoulder injury and shoulder therapy. What we are referring to are the types of strength and resistance training that are recommended to you from your therapist. You should take these suggestions seriously because these exercises will help strengthen any injured muscle or tissue from your injury. You see, the logic behind this is a controlled and gradual strengthening of the affected muscle in order to reduce the likelihood of getting another injury in the same area. Think of it as a tree. The bigger and stronger a tree is, the harder it is for the wind to uproot...